Take your love of crafting to a whole other level with these beautiful storage boxes! Each and every completed project listed, looks like it just came from a top-noch Department store. These make excellent gifts, or keep yourself to decorate your own life a little!
Picture Covered Box
You will need:
cardboard box and lid
old pictures (one’s from past calendar’s work great)
acrylic pain (black or blue)
Equipment:
tape
glue
pencil
scissors or craft knife
ruler
1.For a finished look, paint the inside of your box and lid a your choice of dark color. Let paint dry thoroughly.
2.Measure one side of your box and add two inches to the height and width.
3.Find a picture you like. (You can use type of picture you have).
4.Cut the picture to the dimensions you have gotten from the instructions above, centering the picture as much as you are able. Mark the dimensions first, then cut with scissors or a knife.
5.Fold the paper around the box (the side you measured) and glue edges into place. Fold the top edge to the inside of the box, and secure with glue. Fold the edge to the box bottom and also glue. Let the glue completely before papering the next side.
6.Repeat measuring, cutting and papering for the other sides of the box, but to create a finished edge on the sides, don’t wrap the paper around. Rather, fold the excess paper under itself and glue into place.
7.Then measure the width and height of the top of the box. Add two times the width, and then two more inches.
8.Cut another picture and wrap it around the outside of the lid, folding edges inside, mitering corners and finalizing with glue. 9.Let glue dry thoroughly.
10.You can add a picture to the bottom of the box too, if you’d like.
Fabric Covered with Trim
You can make gift giving special, or create a beautiful storage piece for yourself with these beauty’s. You can use this technique on almost any box; round, square, or even odd shaped boxes that you have either made yourself with cardboard, pr purchased at your favorite store.
You will need:
Box
Posterboard
Pencil
Spray adhesive
Tacky glue
Hot glue and glue gun (optional)
Scissors
Ruler
Fabric and trim (amount of both will depend on size of box, so you’ll need to select or construct your box first)
1. Spray top of lid with spray adhesive (preferably outdoors or in a spray booth). Set, sticky-side down, onto wrong side of fabric. Trim fabric allowing 1/2″ excess around edge of top surface of box. Snip excess every 1/2″ and glue down to side of box lid with tacky glue Create a `collar’ for the box lid using posterboard. Use your imagination to make the `collar’ deeper than the original (scalloped, pointed, etc.). Measure the circumference of box lid and add 1″ to length and enough width to accommodate the design you are planning. To make your design meet neatly at the overlap, divide your posterboard strip into uniform segments with pencil lines (not counting the extra inch). Cut design (Wrap around box lid to make sure the overlap is neat before covering with fabric).
2. Lay collar flat and spray with spray adhesive. Press firmly to wrong side of fabric strip and trim excess, allowing 1/2″ extra on top, bottom and ends for folding under. On curved or pointed edge, snip fabric up to the posterboard and glue in place with Aleene’s™ tacky glue. Repeat for straight edge and ends.
3. Cut a length of fabric that will wrap around the circumference of the box plus 1/2″ extra length and 1″ extra width. Apply spray adhesive to sides of box again if necessary and apply length of fabric, with 1/2″ excess at top and bottom. At back of box, fold over excess and conceal raw edges. Fold excess fabric under at top and bottom of box, and glue in place with Aleene’s™ tacky glue.
4. Cover bottom of box by first tracing the shape onto a piece of posterboard. Cut posterboard just inside your tracing line. Spray with spray adhesive and place onto wrong side of fabric and trim edges to 1/2″. Glue excess to wrong side of posterboard and glue into place at bottom of box.
5. Trims may be attached with Aleene’s™ tacky glue or hot glue. Plan the sequence so that parts you want hidden (tassel string, for instance) is glued into place before braid, and then covered by the braid.
Asian themed box
1: Center lid of box on sheet of Ivory paper and measure, adding about a 1 1/2″ perimeter border. Cut paper and set aside.
2: Ink the large Flowering Crest stamp with the Grape dye ink, and stamp four times on the Ivory paper. Leave about a 3 1/2″-4″ center square in the middle of the four stamps. It’s best to re-ink the stamp after each placement. Allow the ink to dry. Clean the stamp before using the next color. Use an old toothbrush dipped in dish soap and water to clean thoroughly.
2: Ink the large Flowering Crest stamp with the Grape dye ink, and stamp four times on the Ivory paper. Leave about a 3 1/2″-4″ center square in the middle of the four stamps. It’s best to re-ink the stamp after each placement. Allow the ink to dry. Clean the stamp before using the next color. Use an old toothbrush dipped in dish soap and water to clean thoroughly.
3: Re-ink Flowering Crest stamp with Chianti and bookend the purple stamp with the red, allowing only the top-most part of the stamp to show. Allow the bottom to go off the edge of paper. Use a protective sheet of paper to keep your work surface ink free. Let dry. Clean rubber stamp.
4: Measure and cut two sheets of Brown paper 17″ x 7 1/2″. They will cover the base part of the box.
5: Spray one sheet of Brown paper with adhesive spray and wrap it around the box beginning on one side about 1/2″ from the inside top, and pressing it in place, then finishing on the opposing top edge.
6: Spray second sheet with adhesive spray, then wrap the other side of the box, following directions for step 5.
7: Stamp center of each brown panel with the Flowering Crest in Gold pigment ink.
8: Before ink dries, immediately sprinkle with Gold embossing powder. Tap remaining powder onto a piece of paper for reuse.
9: Use a heat gun to emboss the stamp. Repeat steps 7-9 for each of the box’s four sides.
10: Paint box top with 2 coats of Warm White and let dry.
11: Spray adhesive spray on the reverse side of the stamped Ivory paper, then center the paper on the box lid and press into place, being careful to avoid air bubbles.
12: Wrap the paper over the inside edges of the box lid, creating “hospital” corners
13: Stamp the corner of the box lid with the Totem stamp using the Gold pigment ink. Let dry.
14: Choose two opposing Crest images on the box top. Using an X-Acto knife, cut a half circle out of each. Push them up a little bit from the inside.
15: Thread the raffia through the holes on the top.
16: Secure on the inside of the lid with a square knot.
17: Glue two river rocks together, one on top of the other.
18: Wrap raffia once around the joined center of the river rocks.
19: Twist raffia on the opposite side as you would twist ribbon when wrapping a gift. Anchor the raffia with tacky glue as you go.
20: Wrap raffia in the opposite direction and twist again where the rocks are joined.
21: Tie remaining raffia ends to the center of the raffia on the box lid using a square knot. Secure the knot, then trim
